The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-09-03
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We again call the attention of the people
of this town to the necessity of cutting down the
rank growth of weeds about their premises. Very
soon this vegetation will commence decaying and
as there is such an unusual growth of it the con-
sequences may be serious. little money ex-
pended in this work now may save much suffering
and expense hereafter.
"A large number Of horses are in training at
Pimlico for the grand trotting meeting of the
Maryland Agricultural Society which commences
September 18th and continues four days. The
purses amount to $4,000. Messrs. Frank Brown
and T. Alex. Seth went to Hartford, Connecticut,
this week to try and arrange for the bringing on
of several flyers to compete for special purse.
The Towsontown base. ball club went to
Cambridge, Md, on Friday night of last week and
played two games with the crack club of that place
on Saturday-morning and afternoon. The first
one resulted 10 to and the second one Is to g.
both in favor of Towsontown. The visitors were
handsomely. treated by their Cambridge friends,
and returned Monday morning much pleased with
the trip.
The Democratic Executive Committee held
a meeting in Towsontown on Wednesday to ar
range for the campaign. Mr.. John S. Hayes, q
member of the committee for the 18th district, and
who is in sympathy with the Independent Demo-
cratic movement in the county, sent in his resig-
nation, but it was not accepted. MIR. Hayes is the
father-inlaw of DR.. Hebb, the present County
Treasurer.
A youth who graces The UNION Office with
his fine presence, and who is not much of dancer,
INDUCED in that amusement at the Towson Guards
tournament last week. Afterwards, while expati-
atng upon his achievements, said the first set he
danced was "quadrille qualified" He meant,
of course, "quadrle caulifower," but he could not
be made to believe that dances and "garden truck"
went together.
Since last years election four new voting
precincts have been established in Baltimore
ty-one in the 1st district, two in the Sd, and one
in the 18TH The LIST district now has four voting
places and the Sd and 18th six each. This will
necessitate the appointment of twenty additional
election officers-three judges and two clerks for
each precinct-and will increase the expense of
election by about $500.
--On Monday the junior base-bal club of
Towsontown went down to Govanstown and played
~ to II against Towsohtown. Our boys, when
ever they win a game are anxious to get it in the
papers, but when they meet defeat they say moth.
ing about it. They charge that Mondays game
was a case of umpire" but that excuse is so old
that it's moss covered.
bessie, aged six years, daughter of Mr..
Thomas Jones, of Waverly, and granddaughter of
Mr.. Lewis Vogle, of Towsontown, died on Satur-
day last. She had been afflicted with hip disease
for a couple of years, but was a remarkably bright
and interesting child. Her funeral took place on
Monday and the remains we're inferred in the
Presbyterian cemetery, Govanstown. Four little
girls dressed in white, bore the tiny casket to its
last resting place.
Col. 0dom, who delivers temperance ad-
dress every Sunday at Druid Hill Park gate, has
some queer ideas of what is going to happen one
of these days. He said last Sunday, for instance:
1.-The time will when prohibition will prevail,
and the devil will 60 hopping about on a wooden
leg with black eye." 1t would be funny, no
doubt, to see the devil with discoored optic, but
to see ga wooden leg with black eye" would be
simply side-splitting